MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! I GOT YOU!!!!! NA NA NA NAAAA NAAAAAA! You really thought I was going to just end it like that?! NO WAY! Aurora doesn't give up that easily! Hehehehehehehehe, I tricked you!!! ;-) Hehehehehehehehehehehe
A/N - Sorry it took me sooooo long to get this chapter up. You would not believe how much schoolwork I had, and then play practice started along with softball practice. So some nights I have play practice until 6:00 and then I had to go straight to softball practice which usually doesn't end until 8. Then as soon as I get home I have to do my homework. It's all just crazy! In the midst of all this I had about 9 projects due for various classes, my honors classes acceptance tests. But, luckily, summer came along and I haven't even been off for a week yet, and I finished this chapter. Sorry it's kinda short, but I didn't wanna leave you guys hanging for much longer. Here it is!
Disclaimer - I do not own Artemis Fowl or any characters associated with him from the books. I do, however, own The Diosa's (Aurora Angel, Kimmy Sentra, Melody Tune, Alexia Toblery, and Katie Fring)
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Aurora lost her grip on the table, and tumbled down the stairs.
Artemis lifted his head up. There was a blood trail running down the stairs, and at the bottom of the blood trail Aurora lay. Her body was twisted in a way that no human's body should be...
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Everything That I Never Had - (The real) Chapter 3
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Artemis stared on at the scene in front of him, a mixture of fear and shock spread across his handsome features. He hadn't meant to cause her to fall down the stairs. Just tackle her to the ground and drag some information out of her. A puddle of blood had formed around Aurora's battered body. It stained the light carpet and soaked through her clothes. Artemis stood up quickly, maneuvered around the shards of glass, and flew down the stairs. He couldn't let her die. Then he'd be charged with murder. Artemis looked Aurora over. Places on her cat suit had been ripped open by the shards of glass.
(A/N - No where bad you dirty minded people!!!!)
Artemis grabbed her wrist rather roughly, and felt for a pulse. It was there, a bit faint, but there nonetheless. He brushed away the strands of blood soaked hair on her face, and felt her shallow breath on his hand. Her face was terribly pale.
'Good,' he thought, 'she's still breathing and has a pulse, but I have to do something to stop the bleeding or she'll die for sure.'
Artemis knew better than to move her, she could have a concussion. So he grabbed as many blankets as he could find, and wrapped them tightly around her. He prayed that would slow down the bleeding as he ran up the stairs into his room. Next to his bed was a small intercom box. He pressed a green button down, "BUTLER!" There was silence and then a sleepy voice answered;
"Artemis?"
It definitely wasn't Butler. In fact, it sounded more like Juliet. But it didn't seem very likely that it would be her because she wasn't supposed to be home from school until next week. Artemis really didn't have time to ponder why Juliet was answering instead of Butler.
"Juliet! I need you and your brother up here now!" Artemis yelled.
He hurriedly switched off the intercom and flew back down the stairs. When he reached the bottom of the stairs, to his utter astonishment, Aurora was gone. He looked around, "She couldn't have gotten very far, not with those injuries." He looked around again and noticed something he had failed to see before. A few bloody handprints were scattered across a wall. On the floor, not far from the location of the handprints, was a trail of blood. Artemis began following the trail of blood and handprints. He followed them all the way down to the foyer, where the front door was. Through the darkness, he saw something move. It was Aurora. She was moving along swiftly, despite her injuries.
"C'mon..." She coaxed herself on, "you can do this, girl."
Her right hand clutched her left side which had taken the brunt of the fall. Her free hand gripped at the other wall to steady herself, leaving the bloody handprints. Aurora had reached the floor now. Artemis slipped down the stairs into the shadows to watch her. He knew she wouldn't make it much farther than his stoop. Aurora stopped three feet from his door, and leaned on the wall to relax for a second. She pulled her hand away from her side with much difficulty. It was covered in blood, and there was blood caked underneath her fingernails.
She let out a long, irritated groan. "Just greeeeeeeeat. That damn Foul boy! Push me down the stairs. Asshole. He better watch his back." Aurora continued to mumble and curse about Artemis.
She reached a bloody hand out to open the door, but before she could even touch the handle, it was thrown open. Aurora stumbled back, groping around for something to steady herself on. She stopped moving suddenly, and put a hand on her head. What little color there was in her face disappeared. She began to sway slightly, then her eyes rolled back into her head and... THUD. Aurora landed in a heap on the beautiful marble floor. The impact jarred her hand away from her side, and it began to bleed again.
"AW SHIT!" Artemis yelled, jumping out of the shadows.
Butler and Juliet were looking very confused. Juliet was the first one to react. She rushed over to where Aurora collapsed.
"What happened?!" She exclaimed.
"I'll explain later." Artemis sighed. "Let's just get her upstairs."
Butler strode forward and scooped Aurora up like she were merely a rag doll.
"Put her in the master bathroom!" Artemis called to Butler's retreating back.
He turned to go get some wet towels to wipe down the walls and floor, but was stopped by an angry Juliet.
An unreadable expression graced her fine features. "Just what exactly is going on here?" Juliet demanded, narrowing her eyes. "Did you hit her?"
Artemis was taken aback, "what?! Hell no!!! I would never ever hit a girl!"
Juliet didn't look convinced, "then what, in God's name, happened here?!"
"I'll explain later, just get up there and fix her up for me, please? Get her into some of mother's old pajamas-"
Juliet cut Artemis off there, "ahem. We auctioned off all of your mothers things, remember?"
Artemis looked pained for a second, but then it was gone. "Yes, I remember. Find something of mine to put her in then."
Juliet left to go upstairs, and Artemis collapsed onto the bottom step. He raked a hand shakily through his jet-black hair, and sighed in frustration. "Damnit!!! If that girl dies I'm going to have to keep it covered. Like the government needs anything to pin on me. I'm a Fowl and that automatically means they expect me to screw up. They just need a good reason to lock me up..." Artemis continued to ramble to himself until a thought occurred to him, 'what would father have done? Hmph, let her die and then run from the law.' Artemis mused to himself.
Artemis was almost exactly like his father, except he thought about how his present actions would affect his future. His father never did that. He always did things on a whim. 'That's what got him killed.' Artemis thought bitterly. Artemis was very against going with his gut feeling or following his heart. In his eyes it seemed the only right thing to do would be to follow his head and ignore everything else.
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Juliet was shuffling through Artemis' drawers. She had already found an oversized shirt for Aurora to wear. She didn't even know why she was looking for a pair of boxer shorts for Aurora to wear underneath the shirt because the shirt seemed big enough to swallow Aurora's petite four feet eleven inch body up. However, Juliet was determined to find some form of shorts for Aurora to wear underneath the huge shirt. She pulled open the drawer farthest on the left, and suppressed a giggle. She had opened Artemis' knickers drawer. Juliet lifted out a pair of knickers with little green aliens on them. Wordlessly, yet with a huge smile on her face, she closed the drawer and left the room. She really didn't feel like digging through Artemis' knickers. She made her way to the master bathroom, only to find her brother standing outside the door.
"What exactly do you think you're doing?!" Juliet demanded.
"Well, you surely didn't expect me to undress her!" Butler said sharply.
Juliet rolled her eyes, "that's not what I meant. I mean how can you leave her in there unattended?"
Butler pursed his lips together, "well, she woke up when I was checking her cuts, particularly the one on her side, and..." he stopped there.
Juliet raised her eyebrows quizzically, "and...?"
"Well, let's just say that girl can pack a punch." Butler turned his head to reveal the black spot on his cheek.
Juliet laughed hysterically, and went into the bathroom. Aurora was laying, motionless, on the bathroom floor. The blankets wound around her were saturated with blood. Juliet began, very carefully, peeling the bloody blankets away from Aurora. After much fighting with the cat suit, Juliet realized she was going to have to cut it off of Aurora, which she did. The gash that had been caused by the large vase falling on Aurora's side was long and deep.
'That is definitely going to leave a scar.' Juliet mused to herself.
The rest of Aurora's injuries were pretty minor. Lots of cuts here and there. A sort of bad one on her forehead, but that was about it. They would have to wait until she was conscious to tell if she had any broken bones or sprains. She slipped the oversized shirt and boxers on Aurora, then she called Artemis and Butler back in. Artemis surveyed Aurora. Crisply he stated, "tie her to that chair."
Juliet's eyes went wide, "what?!"
"You saw what she did to Butler, we can't take any chances. Besides, I don't want her to be able to escape." Artemis declared.
Butler picked Aurora up, sat her down on the chair, and bound her hands and feet to the chair. Silence filled the room.
"Well?!" Artemis said in an annoyed voice. "Don't just stand there! Wake her up!"
Butler strode forward and shook Aurora's slim shoulders violently. Her eyelids fluttered open halfway. It seemed as though she suddenly remembered what had happened because she shot up and her chocolate brown eyes were ablaze.
"Juliet, Butler. You two may go now. I'd like to have a nice little chat with our guest." Artemis said in a controlled voice. Juliet and Butler left the room as quick as possible. "Now," Artemis continued. "I'm only asking that you answer a few simple questions for me, and then you may be let go, but only if I receive the answers I want."
He received no words or actions from Aurora to justify that she had even heard him, and he became slightly irked.
"Fine. What is your name?" He asked her.
Aurora said nothing. She continued staring him in the eyes.
"I'll ask again, what is your name?"
"Eleven letters." Aurora stated simply.
"And what are those letters?" Artemis asked.
"Letters from the alphabet." Aurora shot back, a slight smirk tugging at her lips.
"We will come back to that question. Where are you from?" Artemis asked as patiently as possible.
"A place." Aurora answered, her smirk growing.
Artemis was usually very good at keeping his cool, but he was also used to getting what he wanted when he wanted it. And right now he wanted some straight answers, which Aurora was not giving him. Not to mention the way she was sitting there smirking at him. She knew she was getting to him, and that made him snap. In a flurry of movement Artemis had whipped out a knife and pushed the cold metal against Aurora's neck. Not hard enough to break skin, but enough to scare her. Or so he thought because she still had her cool. The smirk never leaving her lips, and her eyes never leaving his.
"Give me one reason," Artemis growled, "why I shouldn't kill you."
"Because then you'll never find out what happened to your fath--" she suddenly stopped, her eyes widening. She knew what had happened to Artemis Fowl Senior.
Artemis pulled the knife back, "my fath? You mean my father? You know what happened to my father?"
Aurora said nothing, just continued trying to stare him down.
Artemis clenched his fists in anger, but then he had an idea, and a cold, malicious smile crept across his face. "Fine. I can play your game." He said coldly, then, "BUTLER!"
The burly man who he had dismissed earlier returned.
"Find a room for our guest to stay in, and see to it that she is quite comfortable. Our new friend may be joining us here for quite some time." Artemis glanced at her one last time before leaving. Aurora could hear him laughing all the way down the hall.
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REVIEW!!!!! Oh, and one more thing, I know in Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident it says that Artemis Fowl Sr. was captured by the Russian Mafia, but I started writing this before that book came out, so I can't change it now or else it'll ruin my story plot!
